Justice Minister Rob Nicholson: No Room For Fetal Rights

Justice Minister Rob Nicholson is planning to kill the Unborn Victims Of Crime Act, replacing it with a government bill that would leave "no room for the introduction of fetal rights". But the bill C-484 has nothing about fetal rights in it. It merely defines a wanted unborn baby as a separate object which is valuable to the woman who carries him, so it proposes separate punishment for harming the baby while committing a crime against the mother. Nothing else. No personhood for the unborn and no restrictions on abortions - which the bill specifically excludes.

Still, even that was enough for the radical pro-aborts to launch a massive campaign of misinformation and fear-mongering. And with the opposition leader along with the bunch of corrupt health officials on their side, they forced the government to back down. The bill that defines a wanted unborn baby as a valuable object will be replaced with the one that only goes as far as defining pregnancy as "aggravated circumstances".

Compare it - assault under aggravated circumstances versus assault and manslaughter. What do you think is a suitable charge against a thug that assaults a woman, causing her to miscarry her child? But the government can't allow even a slightest chance of reopening the abortion debate. Not before an election campaign - that's for sure.

"Let me be clear, our government will not reopen the debate on abortion," added Nicholson who in the past was recognized as one of the more heroic and reliably pro-life Conservative MPs. "For this reason, and in the context of the government's tackling crime agenda, I'm announcing that the government will introduce legislation that will punish criminals who commit violence against pregnant women but do so in a way that leaves no room for the introduction of fetal rights."

This is the second time this year that Nicholson has betrayed and shocked Canada's social conservatives. In May he presented the Conservative government Justice Department's 50-page defense of the notorious subsection 13(1) of the Canadian Human Rights Act that has permitted major assaults on freedom of expression and freedom of religion by the Human Rights commission kangaroo courts.

When asked if Epp was even told of the new legislation, Nicholson indicated Epp was not informed, or consulted on the matter, saying only that he would find out with everyone else.

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Surrender, betrayal, swing to the left - is that the way to win an election? Whom are they trying to convince? The left will never vote Conservative, at least - not as long as Steven Harper remains the leader. They say it loud and clear. Even if they don't like the Liberals - they have the NDP and the Greens to vote for. Both are solidly "progressive", both are without the Reform / Alliance / NCC past.

So Harper, Nicholson & Co better don't count on the left-leaning voters. Not many of them (if any) will vote Conservative, no matter how "progressive" the party is trying to act. At the same time - traditionalist "small-c" Conservatives (those who reduced Nicholson's old party to a handful of seats and those who had been working hard to build the new party which gave Nicholson and his fellow Red Tories another chance) may simply stay home.

The Conservative party policy convention is about 10 weeks away. If the party establishment votes to keep moving in the same direction - they better think about changing Canada's electoral system to instant runoff or STV, since there most likely will be another split on the right.